Memories
This is a must read:
Three memories have shaped my approach to this year’s general election. Here’s the first. In the late 1970s, during a two-year break from teaching to raise our second son, an adopted child, I found myself at a Los Angeles dinner party filled with DINKs, the “double income, no kids” crowd who were just emerging as a self-aware and upwardly mobile social group. I fell to talking—or more accurately, listening—to a chatty young female attorney who said she was putting in eighty hours a week as a junior associate on a variety of important cases. After twenty minutes or so, she finally noticed my silence and asked me what I did with my own time. So I told her. I told her about the young couple that had asked my husband and me to adopt their baby if we covered their hospital expenses. I told her about waiting outside the delivery room for our son to be born. I told her about the bureaucratic maze that came with finalizing the adoption of a newborn. I told her about borrowing money from friends so we’d look more solvent than we actually were to Social Service inspectors who checked our accounts. “That’s wonderful dear,” she said. “You’re so lucky not to have a real job.”It only gets better. Read it all -- you will be glad you did.
September 4th, 2008 at 4:59 AM
Oh My I’m disapointed in you. First if the young couple had Health Insurance they would not have had to sell their Baby to you to cover Hostipal bills. Second you took off two years to raise this baby, I guess that’s all the time that is needed to raise Chrildren, are you back to work and are you now a “two” income Family? And you ammitted to lieing to Social Service on your income and wealth in order to get this Baby. A true Right Winger, self serving Bigots. Shame on you, Social Service should be contacted, You Broke the Law.
September 7th, 2008 at 6:51 PM
What No Name Calling? How about Bill Clinton or Ted Kenney? I don’t beleive either of them would have done the kind of thing you two amitted to. I am going to spread the word about you and your Wife? People need to read your little self-serving story. Oh the Self-Rightness they shall be judge. So Be It.